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Legislature needs to be recalled to deal with eGaming scandal

Posted|October 11, 2016

Charlottetown – Opposition
Leader Jamie Fox and the Opposition Progressive Conservative Caucus today held a
news conference to call for the Legislature to be brought back early to deal
with the Auditor General's Report into the eGaming
scandal.

Fox
has written Speaker Buck Watts to officially request that the Legislature be
immediately recalled to address the issues contained in the Auditor General’s
Report.

"The
revelations found in the AG Report on eGaming raise serious questions about how
this government does business. Islanders are outraged by this waste and abuse
that has cost taxpayers millions of dollars. Twice last week we called for a
Public Inquiry to get to the bottom of this mess and the Premier couldn’t even
be bothered to dignify our call with a response. That shows how out of touch
this government is,," said Opposition Leader Jamie Fox.

The
release of the Auditor General’s Report into the eGaming scandal was a scathing
indictment of the government’s fiscal and ethical incompetence. The Auditor
General’s Report clearly shows a litany of abuses and gross negligence with the
use of millions of tax dollars as it pursued its secretive eGaming scheme. Chief
among those financial and ethical abuses were:

* Secret
loans involving millions of tax dollars that were hidden from public
oversight;

* A
lack of cooperation with the Auditor General’s Office by several government
departments during the audit, including departments led by Premier
MacLauchlan

The
Auditor General’s Report also detailed a lack of cooperation from government and
its partners in the secret deal to fully cooperate with the Auditor General’s
Audit in her investigation.

“Islanders
are demanding answers about what was done with their money. If Premier
MacLauchlan really cares about being open and accountable he should have no
issue being accountable for what has taken place," says
Fox.